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none specified Commons in parliament That no one may export wool or woolfells other...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/27/1325

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Reference
SC 8/27/1325
Date
[1439]
Description
Petitioners
none specified
Addressees
Commons in parliament
Nature of request
That no one may export wool or woolfells other than to the Staple of Calais without the king's special licence, under pain of felony, except wool which passes the Straits of Gibraltar.
Nature of endorsement
The king wishes it.
Places mentioned
Calais, [France]
Les Streittes de Marrok (Straits of Gibraltar)
Note
Said in Rot. Parl. V, p.23, to be one of the common petitions in the parliament which met on 12 November 1439.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2001
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.30a (no. xx) (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061504/

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